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Exclusive: NoViolet Bulawayo's next novel, Glory, is coming your way this spring.

Literary Hub is pleased to announce that NoViolet Bulawayo’s second novel, Glory, will be published by Viking on March 8, 2022. Viking describes the new book from the author of We Need New Names (which was shortlisted for the Booker Read more >

By Emily Temple

We're getting a (deeply confusing) Pride & Prejudice dating show.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single streaming service in possession of a moderate budget, must be in want of a dating show. As you may be able to discern from my amazing opener, I have actually read Read more >

By Jessie Gaynor

Millicent Simmons will lead an adaptation of Sara Nović's novel about a Deaf teen coming of age.

Today in exciting literary adaptation news: Millicent Simmonds, the breakout star of John Krasinski’s 2018 horror movie A Quiet Place and its 2020 sequel, is leading a TV adaptation of novelist and Deaf rights activist Sara Nović’s upcoming book True Biz—”a coming-of-age Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Hungarian authorities have fined the distributor of a children’s book featuring same-sex parents.

Some troubling news: Hungarian authorities have fined the distributor of a children’s book for its depiction of homosexuality. The book in question, a two-part Hungarian translation of Early One Morning and Bedtime, Not Playtime! by Lawrence Schimel, portrays the daily Read more >

By Walker Caplan

These are the world’s 5 best, most innovative new public libraries.

This week, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions announced the five finalists for the Public Library of the Year Award, presented every year to the world’s best public library—and this year, the finalists are spread across the globe. Read more >

By Walker Caplan

A new Marcel Proust manuscript has been discovered—and you can read part of it right now.

I didn’t eat a madeleine, but this is a throwback: finally the world is able to read Les Soixante-quinze Feuillets (The Seventy-Five Pages), seventy-five manuscript pages that make up the oldest draft of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Read more >

By Walker Caplan

Jason Mott wants you to reconsider the "beautiful time capsule" of film noir.

Looking for a bit of writing inspiration? Have you tried turning to film noir from Hollywood’s Golden Age? In an interview with BookPage, poet and New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott discussed his new novel, Hell of a Book, and Read more >

By Vanessa Willoughby

Put that creative writing degree to the test by helping name every color on the internet.

At some point in every creative writing major’s young life, they will find themselves googling some variation of the question: Is coming up with fun names for stuff a job? (Personally, I really wanted to be the person who got Read more >

By Katie Yee

Jennifer Coolidge used to pretend to be a fake Hemingway daughter named Muffin to get into clubs.

Here’s a delightful bit of trivia: when Jennifer Coolidge—of Best in Show, Legally Blonde, and American Pie fame—was working as a waitress in New York City, she talked her way into nightclubs by pretending to be a lesser (and fake) Read more >

By Jessie Gaynor

21 new books to keep your summer reading going strong.

Remember when you were a kid and you went to the library during the summer for the free AC, and they would give you this chart where you could track your reading? I miss that. In adult life, no one Read more >

By Katie Yee

Sally Rooney hasn’t read your Internet novels.

This week’s issue of The New Yorker features an excerpt of Sally Rooney’s forthcoming novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You. As its title, “Unread Messages,” implies, the excerpts includes its fair share of texts, calls, feed-scrolling, and social media stalking. Read more >

By Walker Caplan

Watch the new trailer for the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's "Drive My Car."

Great news for Murakami fans—and no, it’s not a library, a bossa nova show, a video game, or a limited run of T-shirts. Making its festival debut at Cannes this year and already appearing on most-anticipated lists is director Ryusuke Read more >

By Walker Caplan

Highlights (and lowlights) from Lucy Ellmann’s bizarre Twitter “essay” about crap.

I don’t know what the hell was going on with Lucy Ellmann over the weekend, but she published a 257-Tweet thread as an “essay,” via her publisher in the UK, Galley Beggar Press. Basically, it’s a list of everything she Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

No, you can’t “steal” from a Little Free Library.

The concept of a Little Free Library is pretty self-evident: it’s a free book-sharing box where anyone can leave books they no longer want, or take books they find interesting. It’s 1.) little, 2.) free, and 3.) a library. I Read more >

By Walker Caplan

Nikole Hannah-Jones has declined an offer of tenure at UNC to join the faculty at Howard University.

UNC stays taking L’s. The university has walked back their previous decision to not offer Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, 1619 Project creator, and MacArthur fellow Nikole-Hannah Jones tenure for an endowed fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Read more >

By Vanessa Willoughby

Here are June's best reviewed books.

Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl, Brandon Taylor’s Filthy Animals, Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat, and Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year all feature among the best reviewed books of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Read more >

By Book Marks

We’re getting a new Pride and Prejudice starring Bowen Yang . . . set on Fire Island.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like [A FILM ADAPTATION]! This week, Variety announced that Bowen Yang is set to star in a modern Pride and Prejudice feature adaptation, which takes place on Fire Island. Joel Kim Booster, Read more >

By Walker Caplan

Barack Obama on why libraries are more critical to the American project than ever.

Former president Barack Obama was this year’s closing speaker at the American Library Association Annual conference on Tuesday. In a wide-ranging virtual conversation with Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch III, he discussed misinformation, racial justice, and (shocker) his Read more >

By Walker Caplan

Who will buy Sylvia Plath's wedding ring?

Across the pond at Sotheby’s London, a cache of Sylvia Plath’s letters and personal items are going under the hammer. There’s a family bible, some honeymoon period correspondence between Plath and Ted Hughes, a photo album full of pictures from Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Psst: Charles Dickens had the secret bookcase door you've always dreamed of.

In the study at Gad’s Hill, the Kent country house where Charles Dickens lived for many years (and which is now a school), there is something that every dorky child dreams of: a door designed as a fake bookcase, complete Read more >

By Emily Temple